State v. Jackson

Defendant appeals from convictions for possession and delivery of a controlled substance. ORS 475.992. He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence of crack cocaine seized by a police officer during a patdown search of his person after the car in which he was a passenger was stopped. After his motion was denied, he was convicted after a stipulated facts trial. The issue on appeal is whether the search was reasonably necessary to the officer’s safety. We affirm.

On appeal, we take the facts as found by the trial court, so long as they are supported by the…